Woven carrier.



V. H. JENNINGS.

WOVEN CARRIER.

APPucATloN FILED :um: 3. 191e.

Patented Dec. 26,1916.

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Patented Dec. 26, 1916.

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rn: Nouns refus m.. nomurua.. summum". 1x15 vso VICTOR H. JENNINGS, OE WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 MILLS WOVEN CARTRIDGE BELT COMPANY, 0F WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION WOVEN CARRIER.

Application led .Tune 3, 1916.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, VICTOR H. JENNINGS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Worcester, in the county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Woven Carriers, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The invention has relation to woven carriers on the order of those having one or more pockets and used for holding and carrying cartridges, packaged first-aid supplies, etc. Among thepocketed carriers to which the invention isV applicable are comprised cartridgecarriers, hospital corps belts, medical ofhcers belts, and vothers having special adaptations.

In the case of many pocketed carriers it is customary to insert an eyelet, gromet, or the like, into the body-web in connection with a pocket, at a point laterally adjacent the closed end of such pocket, between pockets when there are two or more, to receive the engaging portion or hook of a wire hanger or suspensory device pertaining to some other piece of equipment.

One object of the invention is to provide a reduced thickness of body-web, so that an eyelet, gromet, or the like, having a short barrel may be used, in order that after the eyelet, gromet or other device has been set and clenched or otherwise fastened in place there shall exist a minimum distance or measurement through the hole or eye thereof from, the exterior of the flange at one surface of the web to the exterior of the flange at the other surface.` This minimizing of the said measurement of the eyelet or other device is designed to permit the use of hangers or hooks having engaging portions of uniform or standard size in all cases, instead of special sizes thereof being necessitated in cases where the fabric-structure of the pocket and adjacent portions of bodyweb would render the said portions thicker than usual if such portions were woven as heretofore.

Another of the objects of the invention is to confer upon the closed ends of the pockets of pocketed carriers an increased expansibility which will give greater capacity to the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 26, 1916.

Serial No. 101,451.

said closed ends, preferably such as to allow the lower or inner end of a square-ended package of a size tightly and snugly fitting a pocket to be thrust more fully home into the closed end of such pocket. The foregoing objects are attained by forming a pocketed woven carrier with a body-web that is split or divided in thickness laterally adjacent the closed end of its pocket. For the purpose of facilitating the application of eyelets, gromets, 'or the like, to one of the divisions, alone, of the body-web, one at least of the said divisions, preferably the front or outer division, is formed with a free edge. j Usually both are thus formed. This permits the two divisions to be separated from each other with freedomy of access to each thereof, and permits the required division to be operated upon in applying the desired part or parts thereto, as in setting eyelets, gromets, and the like, and avoids the necessity of setting the eyelets, gromets, or the like in the full thickness of the body-web, as heretofore. It further permits of eyelets, gromets, or other devices or special attachments being applied to either or both of the divisions as may be required.

Through having the front or outer division of the divided portion of the bodyweb free from the back or inner division thereof laterally adjacent to the ends of the bottom of a pocket to an extent which renders the said front or outer division capable of separating from the back or inner division, z'. e. expanding, and through having the lower portion of the front and side walls of the pocket joined to the said movable or expansible front or outer division, the said lower portions derive an increased movability and expansibility of their own, enabling the closed end of the pocket to conform more fully than heretofore to the contour of the square end of the inserted packave.

@An illustrative embodiment of the invention, and illustrative weaves for the divided or expansible body-web, are illustrated 1n the drawings, in which latter,-

Figure 1 is a perspective of a section or portion comprising two pockets of a pocketed carrier such as is employed for hospital corps service. Fig. 2 is a view'looking from the right-hand side in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a view of an expandedpocket in vertical 'section. Fig. 4 is a view of a collapsed Ypocket in section on line 4, 4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 isa illustrating modes of weaving the divided web.

The particular'procedure and weavefol-4 lowed and adopted in the'pioduction of the pockets 1, 1, andof the main part of the 'web-portions 2 adjacent or between successive pockets, may be as preferredand as circumstances may dictate. The pockets shown in an expanded state in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5 vare of bellows-bottom or expansion-bottom type, t'. e. having a bottom produced by weaving two fabric-plies 1a, 1b, in the fo-rm of an inwardly-directed fold between the back wall and front wall of the pocket, substantially as indicated in Figs. 1 and 4, in such manner as to permit the said bottom to be pressed down and the front wall to be pushed outward away from the back wall, as in Fig. 3, to thereby render the closed or in'- ner end of the pocket roomy and capacious. Theinvention is particularly useful in connection with pockets of the saidy type, partly because the warp-threads whichv are employed-in the-two fabric-plies 1a, 1b, constituting sections of the bottom render the body-web much thicker adjacent and between the closed ends of the successive pockets than such web is elsewhere. In the drawings, the closed ends or bottoms of the vpockets are located at the lower edge of the body-web or band, although in some vcases the lower margin of the body-web or band may project a greater orless distance below the closed ends of the pockets.

In carrying the invention into eifect, the intermediate portions of body-web at opposite sides of the closed end or bottom of a pocket, and between one pocket and the next in the case'of 'two or more pocketswoven side by'y side, are woven in the two main divisions 3 and 4, the division 3 comprising a direct longitudinal continuation of the section l of the infolded or bellows-bottom of the pocket, and the lower portion of the back-wall, it containing theV warp-threads of which said section and said lower portion of theback-wall are composed, Aand the division 4 comprising av direct longitudinal continuation of the section 1b of the bottom, and the lower portion of the front-wall 1c and' side walls 11 of the pocket, it containing the warp-threads of which the` said section and the 'said lower portion of the frontwall and side-walls-are composed.

It 'will be perceived that the division 4 is capabley of being spread or opened away from 'the'division 3; It is'show-n as partly the closed end'orbottom of the'pocket to be expanded to the extent required in order to permit a souare-ended package to be pushed .fully home against the bottom. This construction also gives the gathered infolds at opposite ends of the bottom a better capacity for being pressed down and laterally outward adjacent theside walls, soV that the closed or lower end ofthe pocket is rendered roomie'r transversely ofthe pocket.

Each of the divisions-3 and 4 -of theV divided web is adapted to receive eyelets-such as are shown at 5, 5,'in Fig. 1.4 VIn the said figure the eyelets are shown applied tothe back or under division, alone. Forthe purpose of enabling the application: of the eyelets to be vmade to the desired division, in this c'ase the back or under division, at least one of the two divisions is' formed with a free margin or edge. In this'instance both divisions have free margins or edges. In making application of'eyelets orthe like to the desired division, in this instance the'baok 'orY under division, the other division, in: this case the front or outer division4, is lifted away or separated at the time of making such application. the front ,or outer division will or may be lifted, also, to facilitate the engagementwith the eyelets of the engaging portions' of the hangers-hooks, or' other suspensory devices by means of whichl parts of equipment are connected with the carrier. The said front or outer division 4 in its `normal position will cover and protect the saidv engaging portions to a greater or less extent.

The manner of weaving the two divisions ofthe body-web 2', and the fabric-construction, and the character of the connection of the different parts-,of the said divisions with each other and with the adjacent portions ofl the said web, may vary in practice. Thus, having reference to Figs. 6 to 9, i-n theA saidv divisions, the inner plies 11a, 11?, thereof constituting continuations of the pliesforming the sections 1a and 1b of the bottom of each pocket, may forma sim-ple. loose infold as shown by the diagram represented' in Fig. 6, which will be a continuation of the foldedv bottom as formed in the weaving. 1When the eyelets are set in division 8, or it might be in both divisions, they will hold the said infold in place in the divided portion of the body-web. Orthe inner plies of the two divisions may be bound as by binder-warps 11C to theouter plies partially, for instance adjacent the free margins of the divisions, representedY byY the diagramv given inv Fig. 7.` In suchy ease-theeyelets willbe set in In the present 'instance the solid or bound portion of division 3, or separate eyelets might be set in the solid or bound portions of both divisions. Or the inner plies of the two divisions may be bound completely to the outer plies as in the diagram given in Fig. 8. In the diagrams given in Figs. 6, 7, and 8 the inner plies of the two divisions are produced by short picks of weft, the weft passing over at the inner' edge of one of the said inner plies from such ply to the inner edge of the other thereof so as to connect the two inner edges in the Weaving after the manner of a fold just as in the case of the infolded portion of the bottom of al pocket. 1n the diagram given in Fig. 9 the picks of weft extend into the upper portion of the web-portion 2, be-

tween the face plies of the said web-portion,

and are suitably caught and bound in the weaving. The precise fabric-structure or weave adopted in practice may be varied according to the special results sought to be attained, and as convenience or other needs in weaving may necessitate. The weaves represented in Figs. 6 and 9 will allow the sides, bottom, and lower front corners, of a pocket to expand somewhat more completely than that represented in Fig. 7 and the latter in turn will do so more fully than that represented in Fig. 8.

1 have already indicated herein that a further advantage of the divided or expansible body-web is the fact that the separation of the divisions 3 and t from each other, and the mobility of division t, serve to accommodate the lateral displacement of the hunched and wrinkled infolded portions at the opposite ends of the bottom-fold of the pocket, as a package is forced home against the bottom.

rlhe divided or expansible body-web is not necessarily restricted to embodiment in pocketed carriers having or produced with folded or expansible pocket -bottoms 1t may be embodied in carriers having pockets with bottoms produced in other ways.

The main portions of the body-web, exclusive of the split or divided portion thereof, may be of any approved weave. Herein a fabric-construction of two plies tied or bound together by binder-warps indicated by dotted lines at Z), is illustrated.

lVhat is claimed as the invention is z- 1. A pocketed carrier having the lower margin of the laterally-extending web thereof externally of the pocket divided in thickness alongside the bottom of the pocket, and having the eyelet or the like which receives the suspensory device of other equipment set in one only of the said divisions.

2. A pocketed carrier having the laterally-extending web thereof externally of the pocket divided in thickness into two divisions alongside the bottom of the pocket, at

least one division having a free edge or margin of its own, and at least one of the divisions furnished with the eyelet or the like device which receives the suspensory device of other equipment.

3. A woven pocketed carrier having the laterally-extending web thereof divided in thickness laterally alongside the bottom of the pocket into two divisions respectively constituting direct continuations of the front and back of the pocket and movable therewith apart from each other.

4t. A woven carrier having an integral bellows-bottom pocket, and having the web externally 0f the pocket, at and alongside the bottom of the latter, divided into two divisions integral with and direct continuations of the pocket-front and adjacent bottom-section, and pocket-back and adjacent bottom-section, respectively.

5. A woven `carrier having a series of pockets integral therewith, and having the body-web divided in thickness at and between the successive pockets, with at least one of the divisions having a free lower margin, and also having the eyelets or the like which receive the suspensory devices of other equipment set in one only of the said divi.- sions.

6. A woven carrier having a series of pockets integral therewith, and having the body-web intermediate the bottoms of successive pockets divided in thickness into two divisions respectively constituting direct continuations of the front and back of each of the adjacent pockets and movable therewith apart from each other.

7. A woven carrier hav-ing a series of pockets integral therewith, and having as woven a continuous longitudinal infold constituting a bellows-bottom for individual pockets, and a. divided body-web composed of separable divisions between successive pockets.

8.` A woven carrier having a series of pockets integral therewith, and having as woven a bellows-bottom to each pocket, and between one pocket and the next a bodyweb divided into two separable divisions, one division comprising the warps of one pocket-bottom section and of the adjacent portions of the face-walls of the pockets, and the other division comprising the warps of the pocket-bottom section and of the adjacent portions of the back-walls of the pockets.

9. A woven carrier having an integral expansion bottom pocket, and having the web externally of the pocket at and alongside the expansion-bottom woven in divisions separating from below upwardly, one thereof in direct continuation of the pocket-front and movable therewith apart from the other.

10, A woven carrier having a plurality of integral expansion-bottom pockets, and hav- In testimony Whereofl eiiix my signatiire ing the body-Web alongside the expansionin presence 0I" two Witnesses. bottom of the said pockets woven in divi- VICTOR H JENNINGS sions separable from each other, and also having the eyelets or the like Which receive Witnesses: the suspensory devices of other equipment CHAs. F. RANDALL,V set in one only of the said divisions. EUGENE A. SissoN.

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